Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.